All right. In this movie, I am going to show how to install a local web server so that we…can test our mobile web pages using our local machine.…Now I am going to stress, before I do this,…you don't strictly need to do this if you don't want to.…If you already have a web server that you use for your web development, you can…just simply make a directory on that web server and serve your mobile web pages…from that directory. But I'm going to use a local web server because it just…simplifies the process.…I can edit the example files locally, copy them to my local web server, and then…just test them out. And the reason why we need to use a web server is because…the emulators that we are going to be using don't have the ability to open up…local files from the system.…

They are virtual machines running inside their own separate processes as if they…were on actual phones,…so they don't have the same access to the local file system that your…normal browser has.…So to get around that issue, we're going to use a local web server.…

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7/20/2011

This course surveys the core principles and techniques essential to building web sites for mobile devices. Author Joe Marini introduces the mobile context, sheds light on its unique coding requirements, and discusses interface design techniques that enhance existing sites for mobile viewing. The course shows how to approach designing for mobile form factors such as smaller screens and finger-based interaction, along with how to incorporate CSS3 and HTML5 capabilities, such as geolocation, local storage, and media queries.